Engines, Oil and Conspiracies
Engines, Oil and Conspiracies We have had engines in boats for more than a century. In a sailing yacht there...
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Yet Another Anchor Alarm, or The Best One
Thirty anchor alarms reviewed against their makers' own published material: what actually wakes a sleeping crew, and what the whole...
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One MFD at the Helm. Five More in Your Pockets.
At anchor the helm screen goes dark to save the battery. The Galvanic Voice puts your boat data on every...
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We Hate the Ads That Say You’ve Got Another Crew Member
We Hate the Ads That SayYou’ve Got Another Crew Member Open any marine-electronics brochure — for an AIS overlay, a...
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Four Subscriptions a Sailor Owes. The Rest Is a Tax.
Four Subscriptionsa Sailor Owes.The Rest Is a Tax. A short audit of the recurring fees you have been signed up...
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The Price of a Watt
The Price of a Watt A sailing boat is a small power station with no grid behind it. Every Watt...
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Who’s Looking? The Bracelet Knows.
Who’s Looking? The Bracelet Knows. The attentive reader of these pages — and we are grateful for the attentive reader...
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The Boat That Knows What It Is Doing
The Boat That Knows What It Is Doing Open the menu of any modern marine instrument and you will find...
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AIS Is Magic. Until You Have to Steer.
AIS Is Magic.Until You Have to Steer. AIS solved one of the great problems of night-time sailing — knowing that...
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Galvanic Polars: The Polar Diagram Your Boat Draws of Itself
Galvanic Polars: The Polar Diagram Your Boat Draws of Itself Every new boat comes with a polar diagram. It is...
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OK, a Voice. But Why a Glass Speaker?
OK, a Voice.But Why a Glass Speaker? A companion piece to Behind the Scenes of the Galvanic Voice. The short...
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Why the Galvanic Voice Is Complementary to Your Multifunction Display
Why the Galvanic Voice Is Complementary to YourMulti-Function Display (MFD) The first question every prospective customer asks us is some...
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Behind the Scenes of the Galvanic Voice
Behind the Scenes of the Galvanic Voice It started with fancy ideas — and the fancy ideas are not dead...
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The Screen That Doesn’t Save You
The Screen That Doesn’t Save You The modern boat’s nav station is a wall of glass. A multifunction display with...
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Schrödinger’s Watchkeeper
Schrödinger’s Watchkeeper:The COLREG Rule You Cannot Honestly Obey On every offshore passage there is a single COLREG rule that every...
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The Intelligent Anchor Alarm — How the Galvanic Voice Watches the Anchor For You
The Intelligent Anchor Alarm — How the Galvanic Voice Watches the Anchor For You The anchor alarm built into a...
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